For the fourth consecutive quarter, automation suppliers saw robust revenue growth, posting overall gains of nearly 8 percent versus Q1 2017 (which marked the last quarter of extended losses for the market).

ARC Advisory Group attended the 46th Turbomachinery & 33rd Pump Symposia (TPS) in Houston in December; the show was postponed from its traditional mid-September date because of Hurricane Harvey. 

Several ARC Advisory Group analysts recently attended the 2018 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) held at NRG Park in Houston.  More than 61,000 attendees gathered at the annual conference, which featured more than 2,300 exhibiting companies.

When implementing industrial control systems to monitor and control elements of the critical infrastructure, it has always been crucial to ensure their safe and reliable operation.  

In addition to our ongoing market research in the global machinery market, ARC Advisory Group also provides our Advisory Service clients with a periodic Machinery Index report to provide an update on the current health of this important market. 

At the OSIsoft EMEA User Conference held in London in October 2017, Peter van den Heuvel, Technology Lead, PI-CoE, and Dan Jeavons, General Manager, Advanced Analytics, Shell Global, spoke about Shell’s journey into advanced real-time analytics.

This PowerPoint presentation represents a concise update to ARC Advisory Group’s periodic Automation Index report.

Procedures are everywhere; and nowhere is this more obvious than in the process industries. 

Logistics professionals have traditionally considered their warehouses to be either manual or highly automated. Highly automated solutions have high throughput, but are expensive and inflexible – they adjust poorly to change.

The formation of user groups as a venue for sharing experiences and solutions is a long-established practice in industry.